grey fairy tale book

Chapter 20 Yuti and Her Seven Brothers (2)
So the old cat ran into the kitchen, and came to the fire, and spat on the fire until it was put out.After a while, Yuti came to the kitchen to cook, but there was no fire. "Why did you put out the fire?" she asked the old cat.

"I just want to see how capable you are in cooking! Don't you let me do whatever I want?"

Judy left the kitchen, climbed to the roof of the castle, and looked into the distance.In a place far, far away, so far away that she could hardly see clearly, a fire flickered on and off. "I must go there and get some coals, so I can light the fire," she thought, and opened the door.When Judy arrived at the place where there was a fire, he saw an ugly ogre lying on top of the fire.

"Hello, grandpa!" Judy greeted.

"You too," echoed the ogre, "how did you get here, Judy?"

"I've come to ask for a piece of charcoal, and the fire at home has gone out."

"Do you want a big piece, or a small piece?" the ogre asked her.

"Why, does it make a difference?" she asked.

"If you want a big charcoal, you must give me the skin from the ear to the thumb, and if you want a small one, you must give me the skin from the ear to the little finger."

Judy felt that there was no difference between the two, and that they were both terrible conditions, so she said that she wanted a big coal fire.The ogre cuts off Judy's skin, and Judy returns home with the tinder.While she was hurrying on her way, a crow saw the blood dripping on the ground and covered it up with earth.Then the crow followed Judy quietly until she returned to the castle.As soon as Judi walked through the gate, the crow flew to her.Judy screamed in terror, because she hadn't noticed it was behind her until now, "You scare me! You're going to die!"

"Why do you think I'm going to kill you?" The crow stopped and asked Yuti, "I'm obviously helping you!"

"You helped me? What did you do for me?" she asked.

"Oh, you'll know soon enough," the crow replied, and as it spoke, it used its beak to turn over the dirt that covered Judy's blood along the way, and then flew away.

At night, the ogre got up, and along the trail of blood, it came outside Judi's castle.Yutti forgot to close the gate, and the ogre entered the gate smoothly and came to the center of the house.But, after that, the man-eater was stopped by seven doors, six wooden doors, and one iron door, and they were all locked tightly.The ogre had no choice but to yell at the door: "Oh, Judy, look at what the old man is doing?"

"I saw him weaving a web like a spider, and he's covered in silk, and he's just laid down on a four-legged bed!" replied Judy.

When the ogre heard it, he broke open a door and ran away laughing.

The next night, it came again and asked Judy what he saw the old man doing.Judy's answer was exactly the same as yesterday, so the ogre broke open another door, laughed and ran away.

For the next few days, it was like this every day, until the ogre came to the seventh door.

The little girl had no choice, so she wrote a letter to her brothers and tied it around the neck of a pigeon. She said to the pigeon: "Good carrier pigeon, good carrier pigeon, quickly send the letter to my brother! Come back as soon as you finish delivering it!" "The dove just flew away.

The pigeon flew, flew, flew, and finally found the seven brothers.The eldest brother untied the letter from the pigeon's neck and read the letter written by the younger sister: "Brothers, I am in great trouble. If you don't come back tonight to save me, I will die tomorrow. The ogre has broken After passing the six gates, only the iron gate is left. Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up..."

The eldest brother read the letter and quickly shouted: "Brothers, hurry up! Quickly! Quickly!"

"What happened?" they asked.

"We must rush back to save my sister tonight, otherwise it will be too late, and she will be eaten by ogres tomorrow!"

Without saying a word, the elder brothers immediately jumped on the horseback and galloped back like the wind.

The gate of the castle had fallen to the ground, and they went straight into the courtyard, calling for their sister.But the poor little girl was too frightened to speak.The brothers dismounted, passed through the six open doors, and came to the iron gate, which was still firmly shut. "Youti! Open the door!" They shouted, "We are brothers!" Yuti stood up, opened the door, threw herself into the arms of her elder brother, and burst into tears.

"Tell us what happened," said the elder brother. "How did the man-eater get here?"

"It's all the cat's fault," replied Yutty, "that he extinguished the fire, so I couldn't cook. It was a bean, actually! I ate a bean and forgot to give him half eat."

"But, we have specially told you!" said the eldest brother, "No matter what you eat, you must share it with the old cat."

"Yes, but I forgot for a moment!" Yuti replied.

"Does the man-eater come every night?" asked the brothers.

"Come every day," said Judy, "and when it comes, it smashes down a door and goes away."

After hearing this, the brothers thought of a way, "We dig a big pit, put hot coals in it, cover the top, and whenever it comes, we push it into the pit. "So, everyone started to dig a big hole and light the wood until the wood turned into charcoal with sparks.

Soon, the ogre came again.As usual, it started calling Yutti's name, "Youtty, did you see what the old man was doing?" She replied, "I saw him tear the skin off a donkey and eat it. I I also saw him fall into the fire and screamed as he was burned."

The cannibal was so angry that he slammed into the iron door, and the iron door was knocked open soon.Judy's seven elder brothers were standing there, and they said to the ogre, "Come on, sit on this mat and rest for a while!" The ogre was indeed tired after knocking on the door for a long time, so it sat down down.But no sooner had he sat down than he fell into the fire-pit covered by the matting.The brothers added more wood to the fire pit, until the man-eater was burnt to ashes, and not a bone remained.

However, a piece of the ogre's nail was blown away by the wind, and floated upstairs to Yuti's room, where it stuck on her own finger, and Yuti immediately fainted.

At this time, Yuti's brothers were sitting downstairs waiting for her, and everyone didn't know why the younger sister didn't come down. "What happened to her?" asked the elder brother loudly, "Perhaps she fell into the fire pit too." So one of the younger brothers ran upstairs, but saw the younger sister lying on the ground. "Yuti! Yutti!" he yelled, but she didn't move, couldn't open her mouth to answer.He understood that his sister was dead, so he rushed downstairs to the yard, and hurriedly said to his brothers, "Go and have a look! My sister is dead!"

Soon, everyone came to Judi and found that she was really dead.So the seven brothers made a coffin, put Yuti in it, and tied the coffin to the camel.They said to the camel: "Take her back to her mother! But, remember, don't stop along the way, and don't let anyone catch you, and don't kneel in front of anyone, except one who is against you." Whoever says 'tape'! If anyone says 'tape' to you, kneel before him."

In this way, the camel set off.When it had gone half way, three men kept running after it, trying to catch it, but they could not catch it.So they yelled "Stop!" to the camel, but the camel ran faster and faster.The three of them were panting behind, but there was nothing they could do.Later, one of them said, "Wait, my shoelace is broken." The camel heard the "lace" and immediately knelt down.

The three came forward and saw a coffin in which lay a dead girl with a ring on her finger.One of the boys immediately grabbed Yuti's hand and tried to take the ring off.Inadvertently, he knocked off the ogre's nails on Yuti's hand.Youti immediately sat up and said: "The one who saves me will live a hundred years, and the one who kills me will be cut to pieces!" As soon as the camel heard Youti opened his mouth to speak, the camel turned around and brought her back. In front of my brothers.

Brother Seven was still sitting in the yard crying bitterly, his eyes were blurred and he couldn't see clearly.When the camel stood before them again, they thought, "Has it brought back my sister's body again?" So they stood up and beat the camel.The camel then knelt down, and Judy crawled out of the coffin.The brothers immediately rushed forward, hugged their sister, and cried even louder—but this time they were crying with joy, because they were so happy to meet each other.

"Tell us," the eldest brother finally stopped crying, and said with a sob, "what's going on? How did you die?" When it got to my finger, I passed out on the floor. That's all I know."

The eldest brother asked again: "Who pulled out the nail?"

"Someone grabbed my hand and tried to pull off my ring, and the nail fell off, and I was alive again. As soon as the camel heard me, it brought me back to the castle. That's all. After saying this, Yuti became silent.

At this time, the eldest brother said to the brothers: "Brothers, are you willing to listen to me?"

They replied: "Why don't we listen to you? Didn't we say 'A brother is like a father'?"

"That's good. Here's what I think: We should take our sister back to my parents, at least to see each other before they grow old."

Everyone agrees with the elder brother's statement.So, they did what they said, put their sister on the camel's back first, then immediately got on the horse and set off.

They walked for five days and five nights, and finally returned to their hometown, where only father and mother lived alone.Dad was very happy, and he asked his sons: "My sons, why didn't you come back, leaving mother and me crying day and night?"

"Dear Papa," replied the sons, "let us rest for a while, and then I will tell you the whole story slowly."

"Okay." Dad waited patiently for three days.

On the morning of the fourth day, the elder brother asked his father, "Dear father, would you like to hear about our adventure?"

"Of course I would!"

"Okay. Actually, it was the aunt who made us leave home. We had agreed with her that if it was a younger sister, she would wave a white handkerchief; if it was a younger brother, she would wave a sickle. It's boring, let's just wander around. And my aunt has had enough of us and doesn't want us to live with her, so after my sister was born, she waved a sickle at us. So, we went farther and farther. We That's the story."

That's their story.

(End of this chapter)